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Africa’s target of ending violent conflict by 2020 may be a pipedream if member countries do not finance the organisation. Candidates seeking to become the next chairperson for the African Union Commission argued in their first ever pre-election debate that financial constraints facing the continental...

The Governments of Sweden and the Netherlands have made financial contributions of USD 3.3 million and USD 800,000 respectively towards UNDP’s regional initiative on preventing and responding to the growth of violent extremism in Africa through a development lens. The project also received an earlier...

BANJUL - Gambia's leader of some 22 years Yahya Jammeh announced late Friday he would no longer accept defeat in recent elections, plunging the West African country into turmoil with a demand for fresh polls. Investigations into the December 1 vote have revealed a string...

Ghana's main opposition leader, Nana Akufo-Addo, has won the country's national election after President John Mahama conceded defeat. Akufo-Addo said on Twitter that Mahama had called him "congratulating me on winning the 2016 Presidential Election". https://twitter.com/NAkufoAddo/status/807319465876721664 Ghana's state television has also confirmed Maham's concession. Crowds of jubilant supporters...

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — As many as 3.5 million people in Africa were uprooted from their homes in 2015 because of conflict and natural disasters and left stranded in their own countries, with many governments overlooking this growing problem, a report released Friday said. Figures...

The nation's first elected Somali-American lawmaker says she was harassed and called "ISIS" by a taxicab driver in Washington, D.C. Minnesota Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar detailed the incident on her Facebook page on Wednesday. She said the cab driver called her ISIS, lobbed sexist taunts and...

Aisha Buhari, wife of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that she has not accepted gifts since becoming wife of the president and did not have plans to change that position. Mrs Buhari was speaking at the unveiling of a new campaign against corruption tagged,...

BANJUL Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh has ruthlessly pursued opponents real and imaginary, and implied more than once that he would kill anyone who defied him. His magnanimous concession speech and promise of a swift handover to president-elect Adama Barrow after 22 years in power has therefore...

My friend Berenika Stefanska, who has died aged 33 in a light aircraft accident in Kenya, was a freelance journalist and modern-day adventurer. Living in Nairobi, she reported for Reuters from South Sudan on the first day of its independence in 2011, and often...

MEUREUDU At least 25 people died and hundreds were injured after a strong earthquake struck off Aceh province on Indonesia's Sumatra island on Wednesday, local officials said. The shallow 6.5-magnitude quake struck Pidie Jaya district at dawn, as some in the predominantly Muslim region prepared for...